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everything that He does is for the sake of His devotees
c) SrI vAsishTha gives the interpretation – tanoti viSvam iti tat – He Who
expands the Universe. His explanation is that bhagavAn is called tat because
He expands the Universe that is inside Him in the sUkshsma state, into a
Universe that is in the sthUla and visible state, just as the mother gives
expression to a child which is contained in her in an unseen state.
d) satya sandha yatirAja, an AcArya from the madhva sampradAyam, explains
the nAma tat as referring to “that which is not seen” – paroksham vastutat
Sabda vAcyam, haristu pratyakshAt avedyatvena mukhyto vedaika gamyatvAt
vAguNaih tatatvAd-vA tat iti ucyate.
nAma 738. pdmnuÄmm! padam anuttamam
a) The Supreme Goal.
b) The Unexcelled Protector of His devotees.
padAya anuttamAya namah.
The root from which the word padam is derived is pad – gatau – to go, to
attain.
SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives the meanings – padyate = gamyate,
j~nAyate,prApyate, yatyate vA tat padam, and summarizes the meaning of the
word padam to mean “that for the attainment of which, or the knowledge of
which, effort is to be undertaken”. na uttamam yasmAt iti anuttamam – That
which is not surpassed by anything else is anuttamam. Padam anuttamam thus
refers to “That which is unsurpassed by anything else, and for whose
attainment knowledge and effort deserve to be undertaken”.
SrI BhaTTar’s bhAshyam is “teshAm parama prApyatvAt – padam anuttamam”-
He is the Supreme Goal for His devotees.
SrI aNNa’ngarAcArya summarizes this in tamizh as “tamakku
mElprApaymAnadu onRillAda paDi parama prApayamAnavar”.
SrI v.v. rAmAnujan gives support from nammAzhvAr’s tiruvAimozhi, where
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